skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well if you want it more down to Earth, and if we allow ourselves to dive in the very loose possibility the person did not meet a natural death. (this is a disclaimer).

Then you can just for a minute imagine a more trivial (yet conspiracy) connection between a CTO of Albanian origin, which rose to prominence too quick. Its connection with certain circles who helped this. And the public secret of a very powerful cartel running a Balkan country (or few perhaps) long enough to pull lotta weird shit.

I hope this is depersonalized enough to not get anyone implied in anything. But just - for the fiction of it.
Yeah, it was HEIC that brought me to nomacs, I never heard of the format until I switched the phone for an iPhone.
I think navigating code definitely has a relationship to navigating meatspace, and the ability to internalize a view of the code space makes for a good programmer.

I'm long retired now, but attribute a lot of my programming ability to having had very poor sight in early childhood thus having to keep a mental map of my surroundings.
Maybe don’t bully anyone unrelated to your organization until active shooters become a regular occurrence at their own office building.
I tried with sorbet/sorbet:

> File tree and README combined exceeds token limit (50,000). Current size: 159829 tokens. This GitHub repository is too large for my wallet, but you can continue by providing your own Anthropic API key.

Without having an idea of the output it would produce, I can't tell if it's worth it. I'm not particularly interested in this test example so it's something I might try for an easy win, but probably tweak and maintain whatever it produces--or discard it and make something by hand. Showing something subjectively incorrect is good motivation.
So many billionaires talk about how the world needs more people that few actually question whether or not they mean that.

Meanwhile, they believe that AGI will render human workers (and humans?) obsolete, they understand that any resource is finite, including power, and although they talk big game about how it's going to be utopia, they have lived their entire lives being the most successful/ruthless in an economy that is, no matter what apologetics are spewed, a zero-sum game.

If I've lived in a world that has rewarded being duplicitous and merciless with great riches, and I know that having to share with an ever-increasing number of people also increases the likelihood that I won't live like a god-king, why wouldn't I sell a happy soma-vision while secretly hoping for (or planning) a great depopulation event?
Oh neat, how did you generate that data?

Nuenki uses processed wiktionary data. Its definition for that word is this:
https://dictionary.nuenki.app/get_definition?language=Dutch&...

(ofc rendered nicely in the client).
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Exactly how many millions of hours did this take?
History is written by the survivors and descendants. Not all those who are vanquished are so completely eradicated that they don't have descendants; and even in those unfortunate cases, someone unrelated to them will dig up and reconstruct their story as best as possible, and tell it to the world. Some of the loudest voices are from the descendants of those who had been trampled.

Not all kinds of victories are political. Transistors over vacuum tubes: is that a political victory? Or just a matter of the former not being easy to shrink to microscopic sizes, or operate without high voltages and waste heat.
Just the concept of "history" depends on a shared objective reality, which is under attack in 2024 more than any other time.
This has some meme potential, it succeeded at "show me the OpenAI data centers"
That is hardly an exhaustive list.
There is way more (see first comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38788360
Both of those altitudes seem extremely low. I’m not familiar with this incident, can you provide more details?
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I think this is wildly optimistic about how environmentally conscious customers of LLMs are. People use fossil fuels directly and through electricity consumption in a unconscionable way at a scale wildly exceeding what a ChatGPT user's energy expenditure is.

We desperately need to rapidly regulately down fossils usage and production for both electricity generation and transport. The rest of the world needs to follow the example of the EU CO2 emissions policy which guarantees it's progressing at a downwards slope independent of what the CO2 emissions are spent on.
There was much, much more discussion here, e.g:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530885

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38567687

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38628635

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38788360

& more
While not directly related to the intellectual debates that surrounded the creation of the Constitution, I do recommend _America's Revolutionary Mind_. A detailed account of the better ideas in the culture at the time in the decades leading up to July 4, 1776.
I have always liked the programming version of this: "Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration"
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Welcome to being a business owner. Nobody is going to protect your business more than yourself. A tenant refuses to pay rent and eviction takes a year? Too bad. Next time, do a better job of screening for risky tenants.

The problem with the victim first mentality is that it causes you to underestimate how much agency people actually have (e.g. being unaware of how excessive tenant protections decrease the supply of housing available to low-income earners).
> Someone a week out of school can identify a problem that requires thousands of people coordinated by leadership across the organization to solve.

I am not suggesting that the person solve the problem. I am saying that they are capable of putting forth a solution.

The solution may not be complete, great, reasonable, or feasible. But nobody ever got better at solving problems by not thinking of solutions.

And shouldn’t we try just asking someone for a solution before we get to thousands of people working to solve a problem?

> many problems require significantly more experience or expertise to propose a solution to than to identify.

You skipped over the part where I challenged you to put your own money on the line to test this belief.

You really think that a single solution is impossible to identify for “many problems”?

Hypothetically, imagine a problem you think I can’t come up with a solution for. I will present a solution to it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tesla_Autopilot_crashe...

>As of October 2024, there have been hundreds of nonfatal incidents involving Autopilot[2] and fifty-one reported fatalities, forty-four of which NHTSA investigations or expert testimony later verified and two that NHTSA's Office of Defect Investigations verified as happening during the engagement of Full Self-Driving (FSD)

Nothing weird about calling out the lackluster performance of an AI that was rushed to market when it's killing people.

>and even I think the Musk hate is just getting weird

The only weird thing is that Musk is allowed to operate in this country with such unproven and lethal tech. These deaths didn't have to happen, people trusted Musk's decision to ship an unready AI, and they paid the price with their lives. I avoid driving near Teslas, I don't need Musk's greed risking my life too.

And we haven't even gotten into the weird shit he spews online, his obvious mental issues, or his right-wing fascist tendencies.
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Well thats the argument most people here are making - that current LLMs are not good enough to be fully autonomous precisely because a human operator has to "put the right thing into them to get the right thing out."

If I'm spending effort specifying a problem N times in very specific LLM-instruction-language to get the correct output for some code, I'd rather just write the code myself. After all, thats what code is for. English is lossy, code isn't. I can see codegen getting even better in larger organizations if context windows are large enough to have a significant portion of the codebase in it.

There are areas where this is immediately better in though (customer feedback, subjective advice, small sections of sandboxed/basic code, etc). Basically, areas where the effects of information compression/decompression can be tolerated or passed onto the user to verify.

I can see all of these getting better in a couple of months/few years.
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After rewatching The Omen II, where part of the Thorn Industries corporate strategy is that famine is a growth sector, I do wonder if - given climate change - Putin’s goal in invading Ukraine (“the breadbasket of Europe”) is to corner the market for food.

Oil is going to be in decline due to renewables. He needs another string to his bow.
Wouldn't "you have to pay even if we don't deliver the product you're buying" be considered unconscionable?
Even when using it to go someplace unfamiliar you can pay attention and try to spot features of the area that you can use later to orient yourself if you ever want to navigate there again but without GPS.

I wonder if that would sufficiently engage your navigation and spatial processing to give some of the same benefits the study found?
It wasn't just about getting people to work, but keeping people from degenerate and/or anti-social behavior. Probably the single biggest factor in the success of a society is channeling young adult male behavior towards productive ends. Getting them to work is part of it, but also keeping them from destructive behavior. In a world where basic needs are provided for automatically, status-seeking behavior doesn't evaporate, it just no longer has a productive direction that anyone can make use of. Now we have idle young men at the peak of their status-seeking behavior with little productive avenues available to them. It's not hard to predict this doesn't end well.

Beyond the issues of young males, there's many other ways for degenerate behavior to cause problems. Drinking, gambling, drugs, being a general nuisance, all these things will skyrocket if people have endless time to fill. Just during the pandemic, we saw the growth of roving gangs riding ATVs in some cities causing a serious disturbance. Some cities now have a culture of teenagers hijacking cars. What happens to these people who are on the brink when they no longer see the need to go to school because their basic needs are met? Nothing good, that's for sure.
The fact that they have physical exercise (i.e. walking) probably contributes a lot..
If someone documents a natural disaster like a Volcano engulfing an entire city, that's not political in any way, that's just recording facts that any historian regardless of their political views would record.
Storing 3D scans in a grain of wheat
The thing I like about Python over Ruby is the one way to do a thing mentality. Ruby reverses this and has multiple ways from keywords if/unless and standard library filter/select, find/detect, etc--this drives me batty. The other infuriating is the subjectively surprising uses of the ! suffix on method names. `compact!` is a double whammy which mutates in-place (as expected) but also the return value is sometimes self and other times nil.
In this specific case it was obvious that Luna was based on dubious economics. It didn’t require auditor skills. Barely high school economics. If YouTubers are not blamed for promoting scams without appropriate disclaimers, the crypto industry will grow the wrong way. Making the promoters responsible for this would help legitimate projects.
This would require a key per app installation, my SO has the app installed too for example.

It would also introduce a lot of additional failure modes.

Doable but not exactly trivial.
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Most game studios these days - including Nintendo - explicitly provide guidance and licensing terms for content creators. You can for example check out https://www.nintendo.co.jp/networkservice_guideline/en/index...

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The legal gray area definitely still exists for many of the smaller/indie game studios, but this kind of licensing is more common than not today.
The way most of the world is setup we will need to first address the unprecedented crisis of financing our day to day lives. We figure that out and I’m sure people will find other sources of meaning in their lives.

The people that truly enjoy their work and obtain meaning from it are vastly over represented here on HN.

Very few would be scared of AI if they had a financial stake in its implementation.
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I’m not sure it’s always the best move for an organization to cater exclusively to their most cynical critics.
I have distinct memories as a kid of mapping things into abstract 3d spaces. The number line in my head is a weird 3D thing I still visually navigate whenever I think about numbers.

what's weird is that even while I still use my representations formed as a kid, I don't seem to make new ones when I learn new info, which makes remembering things much harder.
Doesn't also count plenty of legacy servers out there that are on the MBA style of IT: Don't fix what's not broken and deny, delay, defend but for the IT department.

DOS, Win9x, and NT broadly speaking should be relatively fine though depending on how Y2K was fixed.
The economy is meant to serve some people; some people take out of economy more than they give, some people give more than they take.
Before crypto and AI computing in general and the internet in particular were always an incredible deal in terms of how much societal value we get out of it for the electricity consumed.
And how does this compare to a local accounting firm?

Hint: ask the salesman what happens in the event of an IRS audit. A good local CPA will go to the wall for you. Will the service you're considering do the same?
QGIS on many platforms for the fact that - its 1 CPU-bound, does not facilitate Spatial SQL and does not partition data when loading so-called attribute tables. Literally not useful for layers with more than 500k features. Already addressed many times in their issues on github, the short answer is - it will take ages to rewrite it.

It is perhaps too much to say, but QGIS is a dead-end for GIS systems in its current form. Russians branched 2.x into something called NextGIS btw.
I mean it seems more like the underlying issue you have is with how people respond to proposed solutions rather than that they are asked to come up with a solution at all.
I meant the folders, sorry!

Is age the factor here? feels like they’re just as ubiquitous today as they were when the author was in high school.

I certainly appreciate the idea of crafting something special out of seemingly boring material, but the remark that they were taught to model with this paper in school made me wonder of it does have advantages over basic paper or cardstock.
So the question is so abstract as to not have a handle on the answer...

Great, What is M theory?
This also is missing a structure to allow us to unify existing fundamental theories.

The only way to assess this is to stop treating the models as statistical beasts which simply only work with "enough" statistics and start talking about them from the direction of information theory. The answer is glib because the problem is the field requires a mix between stats, computing, and mathematics. 2 of these fields have their own languages for the problem (which differ, but exist) and computing has come along and made another set of names for the same complex things making the whole thing (for now) a mess... Especially with the main practicioners stuck in the view that big llm are simply money printers.
I agree thats true.
> Additionally, naming suggestions also welcome.

"Multty" ?

Edit: Mxtty is probably better
Genuine question: Is it illegal to advertise for a product that doesn't exist, can't be bought, and you have no intention of taking money for?
Not OP but I think you’re confusing “politics” with “bias”.

History is biased, I don’t think anyone would debate that, but bias isn’t necessarily political. There’s lots of reasons for people to think some item or story is worth preserving, and most of them aren’t about politics.

The “everything is political” concept has been a very successful propaganda campaign, particularly in the US.
>These people "donated to a non-profit". They did not "invest in a for-profit".

Sure, nobody wants to be tricked into donating to a charity and then have their money disappear into a for-profit company.

Based on the interviews I saw from some donors (Reid Hoffman, etc), there's more nuance to it than that. The donors also wanted an effective non-profit entity. The TLDR is that they donated to a non-profit under 2015 assumptions of AGI research costs that turned out to be wrong and massively underestimated.

- 2015... the non-profit OpenAI in its original idea of "charity research organization" was flawed from the beginning because they realized they couldn't attract A.I. talent at the same level as Google/Facebook/etc as those competitors offered higher salaries and lucrative stock options. Then, they realized the initial ~$100 million in donations was also not enough to pay for very expensive hardware like GPUs and datacenters. It's hard for researchers to make discoveries in AGI if there's no cutting edge hardware for them to work on. A non-profit tech charity getting billions in donations was not realistic. These money problems compound and lead to...

- 2019... create the for-profit OpenAI Global LLC as a vehicle for the Microsoft investment of $1 billion and also create stock incentives for recruiting employees. This helps solve the talent acquisition and pay-for-expensive-hardware problems. This for-profit entity is capped. (https://openai.com/our-structure/)

(Side note: other non-profit entities with for-profit subsidiaries to supplement funding include Goodwill, Girl Scouts of America, Salvation Army, Mozilla, etc.)

We can't know all the back room dealings but it seemed like the donors were on board with the 2019 for-profit entity. The donors understood the original non-profit was not viable to do AGI work because they underestimated the costs. The publicly revealed emails that as early as 2017, Elon was also pushing to switch OpenAI to be a for-profit company.[1] But the issue was Elon wanted to run it and Sam disagreed. Elon left OpenAI and now he has competing AI businesses with xAI Grok and Tesla AI which makes his lawsuit have some conflicts of interest. I don't which side to believe but that's the soap opera drama.

Now in 2024, the 2019 for-profit OpenAI Global LLC has shown structural flaws because the next set of investors with billions don't want to put money into that LLC. Instead, the next investors need a public incorporated company with ability to IPO as the vehicle. That's where Sam wants to create another for-profit OpenAI Inc without the cap. We should be skeptical but he argues that a successful OpenAI will funnel more money back to the non-profit OpenAI than if it were a standalone non-profit that didn't take billions in investment.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=elon+musk+emails+revealed+op...
Is no one suing the manufacturer for vandalizing the trains?
The current training strategies for LLMs do not also simultaneously build knowledge databases for reference by some external system. It would have to take place outside of inference. The "knowledge" itself is just the connections between the tokens.

There is no way to tell you whether or not a trained model knows something, and not a single organization publishing this work is formally verifying falsifiable, objective training data.

It doesn't exist. Anything you're otherwise told is just another stage of inference on some first phase of output. This is also the basic architecture for reasoning models. They're just applying inference recursively on output.
Do you mean you implement your own CoT on top of some open source available GPT? (Basically making the model talk to itself to figure out stuff)
Nah, make it illegal to collect any kind of identifiable data in the first place.
> - some visual artifacts with the gtk menu

You need a compositor. picom works.

For a proper "native i3 experience" I recommend setting gtk-titlebar=false and
unbinding tab/pane management keybinds. I already have a window manager, I
don't need a second one.

I also had to disable adwaita because when it's enabled closing a shell with ^D
closes all open windows, sometimes it leaves an empty window instead.

> - xterm still feel faster to me.

lxterminal also launches 6 times faster, I guess on a slow laptop without a dedicated GPU these terminals are not the most efficient option.
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But there already was a case where AI chatbot promised something to the customer and court hold company liable to provide the service.

So it is not all doom and gloom.
Okay, that actually made me laugh. Thanks.
Wonder what the time dilation would be. Must be in seconds with that soeed.
No way haha
I was actually slightly concerned when I published it might have some OPSEC issues for some categories.
You would think that Tesla’s full self driving feature would be more relevant than autopilot here, since the latter is just a smarter cruise control that doesn’t use much AI at all, and the former is full AI that doesn’t live up to expectations.
This really speaks to the endeavors of making non-digital hardware for AI. Less of an impedance mismatch.
> I think you’re confusing “political,” which refers to a particular worldview,

“Political” refers to things related to the governance, policies, or affairs of a country, organization, or group. Usually involves the structure of power, decision-making, and public administration, and debates or actions concerning laws, rights, or societal issues.

Having a worldview is not a political act.
Conflated? Russia literally declared itself the successor state of the USSR and assumed the latter's position on the UN Security Council.